bigger

«bigger» in Mova's school dictionary: larger in size or amount than another — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (big, bigger, biggest — bigger is the comparative)

meaning for a pupil

1) Bigger means larger in size or amount than another. tree →

2) Bigger means older: «my bigger brother» (informal). tree →

3) Bigger means more important or more serious: «a bigger problem». tree →

sense in the lessons

a comparison of two amounts or sizes; in maths, comparing numbers with > («is bigger than»); phrases «bigger than», «bigger and bigger», «the bigger the better»

examples

• Which number is bigger, 45 or 54? tree →
• The bigger box holds 12 more toys. tree →
• Her garden is 3 times bigger than his. tree →
• The bigger piece weighs 2 kg. tree →
• An elephant is bigger than a horse. tree →
• The balloon got bigger and bigger. tree →
• 7 > 5 means 7 is bigger than 5. tree →
• We need a bigger table for the party. tree →
• Missing the bus is a bigger problem than being a bit late. tree →
• My feet are bigger than last year. tree →
• There was a bigger one near by. tree →

note

Signals a comparison: the bigger amount = smaller + difference. Trap: «3 times bigger» is usually read as 3 times as big. Double the g: big → bigger, biggest. The sign > opens toward the bigger number.

In the corpora

• Saving means putting money aside now for something bigger later, or for emergencies like a broken boiler.
• Everyone makes mistakes; owning up quickly makes them easier to fix, while hiding them tends to make them bigger.
• Then the bigger worries: will AI take jobs?
• Sound designers make and mix many layers of sound so a scene feels bigger, scarier or funnier.
• In the string family bigger instruments play lower: from highest to lowest they are violin, viola, cello and double bass.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bigger» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.